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Mouse performing a touchscreen selective attention task used to study how the brain filters visual distractions.

Silencing ancient brainstem neurons made mice far more distractible, the first evidence that evolution kept an old attention circuit alongside newer brain systems

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August 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Natural-color view of crescent Mars captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft during its May 2026 gravity-assist flyby.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft borrowed Mars’ gravity in May 2026, gaining a thousand miles per hour and testing instruments built to study a metal-rich asteroid

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August 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Researchers operating a neutron scattering instrument used to detect deep quantum entanglement inside a strange metal crystal.

Nine quantum components act together in a strange metal sample, showing how a solid you could hold reveals the hidden teamwork of the quantum world

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August 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Bridgestone AirFree airless tires powering an autonomous electric shuttle during commercial service in Higashiomi, Japan.

Bridgestone has put its airless AirFree tire to work for the first time, powering slow 12-mph autonomous shuttles for elderly residents in Higashiomi, Japan

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August 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Orange peels covering a barren pasture in Costa Rica during the 1998 forest restoration experiment

In 1998, about 1,000 truckloads of orange peels were dumped on a barren pasture used for grazing livestock in Costa Rica, and what scientists discovered 15 years later was so unexpected that they had trouble recognizing the place

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August 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
An African spurred tortoise stands beside the entrance to its burrow in Senegal's Sahel region.

A viral story claims 500 tortoises turned Sahara sand green in five years, but no scientist, agency, or satellite image can verify that the experiment ever happened

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August 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Battery pack from a Kia e-Niro electric vehicle, the model that recorded the highest battery health in a study of nearly 10,000 used EV battery tests.

A study of nearly 10,000 battery tests found used EV batteries hold up far better than feared, with the Kia e-Niro still at 97% capacity after 62,000 miles

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August 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Permeable sponge pavement installed in Marrakech as part of urban climate resilience efforts to improve drainage and reduce heat.

Morocco is testing a porous ‘sponge’ pavement to replace scorching black asphalt in Marrakech and Agadir, and pilot data show it can run up to 16°F cooler

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August 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Close-up of the Polly Cooper statue honoring the Oneida woman who helped feed George Washington's starving army at Valley Forge.

On April 25, 1778, a young Indigenous woman set out on a journey of more than 299 kilometers through the snow and cold to save George Washington’s starving army, and nearly 250 years later, the United States has finally given her the place she never had in the history books

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August 5, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Three generations posing beside a restored 1953 Allis-Chalmers WD tractor on a family farm

His grandfather paid $2,200 for this new tractor in 1953, and 62 years later, his grandson did everything he could to recover it before it disappeared forever from the family’s history

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August 4, 2026 at 7:45 AM
The Pascua Lama mining district in Chile's high Andes, surrounded by glaciers and alpine terrain.

A Diaguita community is fighting Barrick’s El Alto drilling permit in Chile’s high Andes, arguing it would reopen ground already covered by a binding closure order

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August 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Colombian Navy personnel board a fishing boat during an operation near the Malpelo Marine Sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean.

Colombia intercepted a boat with 1,764 pounds of marine animals near Malpelo, and the catch may have come from one of the Pacific’s most protected sanctuaries

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August 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Aerial view of the protected River Lugg after a British farmer used heavy machinery to reshape the riverbank

A British farmer drove a 20-metric-ton excavator into a protected river, uprooted 71 mature trees, and the damage he caused in just a few days could take 50 years to disappear

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August 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Empress cicada with transparent wings used to develop an ultrasensitive optical sensor

Scientists have transformed a simple fragment of a cicada’s wing into an optical platform capable of detecting molecular signals that, under normal conditions, would be virtually impossible to detect

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August 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Louisiana National Guard helicopter carrying recycled Christmas trees for coastal marsh restoration near New Orleans

New Orleans is collecting thousands of used Christmas trees and dropping them from helicopters to slow the loss of land, which has already exceeded 5,000 square kilometers

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July 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A brown bear catches a salmon in an Alaska stream, a key process that helps move marine nutrients into surrounding forests.

Scientists played human voices near Alaska salmon streams, and bears and eagles fled before the forest could receive what the fish carried 

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July 31, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) that has spread through Italy's Po Delta and devastated clam farms.

An American blue crab invaded Italy’s clam lagoons, and fishers in the Po Delta are watching their old work disappear

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July 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of SpaceX's Starbase launch facility beside the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in South Texas.

SpaceX wants 727 acres beside a Texas wildlife refuge, and Indigenous groups say the court must stop the land swap now

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July 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Common eastern bumblebee collecting pollen from a flower during a study on pesticide effects.

Bumblebees survived low doses of a modern pesticide, but scientists found the real damage hidden in genes linked to the next generation

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July 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Used electric vehicle battery prepared for recycling at an auto salvage facility.

The cheapest and longest lasting electric car battery is the one nobody wants to recycle, and Colorado passed a law to fix the math before those packs become hazardous waste

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July 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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